The article focuses on the role of Nuit Blanche phenomenon in festivals as a strategy for cultural-led urban regeneration towards the creation of a creative city. It mentions that metropolitans centralize on the enhancement of cities through cultural activities and mobilization to address their aims to improve the local economy and strengthen the sense of place of its inhabitants as well as its civic identity. It also notes that the centralization on mobilizing culture through urban cultural policy has also significant entailment to the public realm and urban citizenship. With this, it discusses the Nuit Blanche phenomenon in providing a place where locale narrative can be presented as well as where ideologies can be unframed by socially minded artists and curators.